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The world’s most prolific distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) actor, Anonymous Sudan, has announced a DDoS-as-a-service product called InfraShutdown.
The threat group announced the new service on its Telegram on Saturday (24 February), promising world-leading disruptions as demonstrated by its previous attacks on major organisations and government agencies.
The move marks a significant change in the group’s operations and goals, having previously strictly advertised its attacks as being politically motivated, notably against Israel and its allies, as well as the US.
Now, with the introduction of InfraShutdown, the group appears to be seeking financial gains, likely to strengthen its operations further as maintaining infrastructure capable of taking down the world’s largest organisations and government agencies is assumingly expensive and complex.
Backing this speculation is the group’s initiation of a donation campaign. The group typically has relied on financial backers in the past; however, the recent endeavour suggests either that those backers have stopped supporting the group or that it needs greater funds to maintain or expand its operation.
🚨 New group detected! 🚨 We’ve identified a new DDOS for hire group named InfraShutdown. The group claims to have targeted ISPs in Chad, Uganda, Poland, Israel, South Africa, Djibouti, etc. They were promoted by Anonymous Sudan. #DDOS #ThreatIntel #Cyberattack pic.twitter.com/agmNf4zf26
— FalconFeeds.io (@FalconFeedsio) February 24, 2024
“InfraShutdown emerges as the pinnacle of bulletproof cyber dominance, offering bespoke distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns tailored to the unique objectives of our global clientele,” the group wrote on Telegram.
“From government agencies to private entities to individuals, our services are designed to deliver unparalleled digital disruption across a multitude of sectors with ZERO limits and military grade privacy.”
Anonymous Sudan said its new venture can be tailored to the specific needs of its clients, whether it be for personal, political or strategic business purposes.
It also said that it can tailor its program to different budgets and scales and is able to bypass the world’s strongest anti-DDoS defences. Additionally, it promises security and guaranteed confidentiality.
“Engage with us, and your operations stay under the radar. We guarantee the utmost confidentiality and security, making every campaign private, secure, and untraceable,” it said.
Anonymous Sudan said its previous successful attacks were done using the infrastructure powering InfraShutdown, as will all future attacks.
Since the service’s launch, a number of clients have undertaken significant DDoS attacks, which Anonymous Sudan has then shared on Telegram.
“Happy @InfraShutdown client, he has successfully shut down EthioTelecom, the sole Telecom Company in Ethiopia, using our services,” it said.
Another client attacked Egyptian telecom Orange Egypt using InfraShutdown, which resulted in outages across the country.
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